NAC in 2021

Composer x Visual Artist

belinda reynolds, composer, living, oakland, composition

BELINDA REYNOLDS

 

                       WORDS

"Dynamics and tones of the audio collage, with a recording of the poem Words written by pianist Ting Luo,  to create the musical ‘DNA’ of the solo piano part."

 

        

video artist, visual art, http://www.videosavant.net/, exhibition, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Communication

CHARLES WOODMAN

Jean Ahn, UC Berkeley, Ensemble Ari, Pianist Lecturer

JEAN AHN

 

             FOOTSTEPS

" A piano suite with recording tape and digital imaginaries."

NO. 1  Snow 

NO. 2  Sand 

NO. 3  Asphalt 

NO.4  Crossroad 

NO. 5  Mars

 

Singapore artist, visual designer, Berlin, architecture, digital imaginary

JO HO

JULIE BARWICK

JULIE BARWICK

 

                 Around

"Mix and blur the sounds that have surrounded me: distant construction, simple household sounds, and even the nearby sounds of nature in an urban environment with virtuosic piano technique. "

NICKI DAVIS

NICKI DAVIS

Composer

DANNY CLAY

DANNY CLAY

 

 

                                                                   Threads

 "A six one-minute movements for piano in the style of 'Threads' where musician and video engage in a dialogue that explores the relationship between live and recorded sound and movement. This a series of "video-moments musicaux’’ for live music and pre-recorded music. "

BRETT AUSTIN EASTMAN

BRETT AUSTIN EASTMAN

 

                                           How deep the valley is

"The piece is for piano and electronics that juxtaposes high-register pentatonic with low-register whole-tone harmonic colors. It is a brief meditation on insignificance and displacement, as if from the view of a nomad with no place to rest, interacting with a Max MSP app to process the amplified piano."

CHATORI SHIMIZU

CHATORI SHIMIZU

                                                                 

                                                       Mu Absence

"Unlike European landscape paintings, in Japanese landscape paintings, by placing “ma” in the center of the painting, it expresses the distinctive spatio-temporal aesthetics found in Japanese expressions. Mu Absence seeks to identify the imperceptible within the degrading reverberations between two notated sounds of the piano. ​ The multi media work explores the Japanese homonym with meanings such as "nothing", "dream", and "naught"."

CHRISTOPHER CERRONE

CHRISTOPHER CERRONE

 

 

                                               Cornkind

Acoustic piano solo with electronics, more to come.